Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-04-15

blck aud thus he grows up with
thorough acquaintance with burdens
and pack saddles. As to the other
beast of burden, the collie, bis wages
are from 4 to 10 cents a day. Car
penters, masons and skilled labor
sometimes receive as high as thirty
cents q day. In this country there
are no Gouds, Nanderbilts or bloated
monopolists, but | fail to see the
benefits derived from their absence.
1t is a'country where the laws against
accommodating property and building
finely-laws that would delight tie
Anarchists-and the presence of the
to-be supported nobility, have taken
away every incentive to labor or to
better their condition.
With such an abundance of fish,
flesh and fowl, and with such rich
soil, it may be wondered at that the
people should so largely depend on
the imported food of China aud Ja-
pan. But the game in general is lit
tie used for food Dried fish, cutie
fish, shrinps, sea weed and cookie are
eaten, and also domestic fowls, but
in general little benefit is derived
from the many natural resources of
the country. A peculiar gauzy web
like silk is made, but in small quanti-
ties. Cotton is grown and cotton
cloth manufactured. Formerly all
cotton came from China, chiefly
brought by traders, who came to the
northern barrier. The Chinese jeal-
ously guarded against all attempts to
obtain seed cotton, but finally, it is
said, that one of the annual tribute
bearing messengers to Pekin, carried
back with him three seed-one con-
cealed in the hollow of his staff, one
in his ink pen aud one bandaged up
in cut in his flesh. From these
seeds were born the present growth
of coma, SO they say.
THE WONDERS OF GENsING.
To the Corcans thus far the most
important product Of the soil is GIN
seng The root attains here de-
gree of richness and excellence equal
ed nowhere else in the world. 1t is
used by the natives as tea boiled in
water, and in other ways consumed.
1t is marvellous tonic and stimulant
to failing nervous vitality. There is
no doubt about this, it really does
seem to freshen and invigorate the ner-
vous forces wonderfully. There is an
old Manchurian story of plant grow
ing in an unexplored, mysterious
ncighboring land, which has the
power Of renewing the youth and i'm
parting new life to the person who
will eat of it, yarn somewhat similar
to that which led old Ponce de Leon
into Florida. 1t is supposed by
many that the wonderful plant of the
Manchu legend was the Corean GIN
seng. For some physiological rea-
son the Coreans are deteriorative
race, and their vitality enfeebled ear
ly in life, but for the free use of GIN
seng. Thus it becomes o plant of
much national benefit, and its export
from the country is prohibited entire
ly, under the severest penalties but
owing to its high appreciation in
China there are large profits to be
made in smuggling it-larger than
even in the Canton opium trade.
Consequently there are numbers of
smugglers, and the government keeps
d strict watch on the trade. To fur
ther increase their profits, the pro-
gressive Corean smuggler or ginseng
merchant has learned to import the
greatly inferior ginseng of America
to adulterate the Corean article with.
The missionaries are at work
EIoptripaI DhnnOnpona